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The Bill of Rights: The Fight to Secure America's Liberties

By Carol Berkin
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By Carol Berkin
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"Narrative, celebratory history at its purest" (Publishers Weekly)-the real story of how the Bill of Rights came to be: a vivid account of political strategy, big egos, and the partisan interests that set the terms of the ongoing contest between the federal government and the states.

Those who argue that the Bill of Rights reflects the founding fathers' "original intent" are wrong. The Bill of Rights was actually a brilliant political act executed by James Madison to preserve the Constitutio...

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